LDS Trivia and Puzzles

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Welcome to LDS Trivia and Puzzles, an unofficial game of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Church for short. It's a game that takes place on IRC at specific times or by appointment. The days and times will not appear on this website, because I'm bad at keeping them up to date.

This is the second iteration that I resumed back in July of '18 after about a year and a half of writing questions, writing puzzles, and making changes to the game. The first iteration was during the mid to late 1990's and ended due to running out of players and my leaving the Church. With this iteration, I haven't had players since August of '18.

The main focus of the game is trivia, but there are hangman style puzzles and scrambles. Information regarding game rules appears on different pages: quick and full.

For those that don't know, IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, which has been around since the 90's. It has many networks, but the network the game is on is DALnet. It was on that network for the first iteration, because it was the first network to allow the registration of nicknames and channels, and the script I have may not work on other networks. Instructions for registering nicknames are on DALnet's website itself. It takes place in channel #lds_trivia and can last about four hours. Accessing the IRC network can be easy or hard, depending on the user's computer experience, so instructions are on its own page.

There are many trivia games over IRC on many networks that run 24 hours. Because a human cannot run a trivia game 24 hours a day, those games require matching answers in order for players to get right answers. This requires correct spelling and figuring out how to word the correct answer. Fortunately, they give hints, but it is still frustrating, especially if the answer has a typo. This game differs in the fact that players do not have to figure out the answer's format, and it removes the correct spelling aspect. The host uses a script to track scores and stats, accurately show and track puzzles, randomly scramble words, and automating most of the game's flow. The script tries to match puzzle and word scramble guesses and awards bonus points when making a match.

This site has the following pages with a brief explanation:

Access -- This explains how to access the game using four different methods with pros and cons for each method.
Logs -- This page contains all log files of each past game in this iteration. The only thing I really kept from the first iteration is the script, but I even rewrote some of its code.
News and Updates -- This page shows updates to the game and website.
Rules:

Quick -- A brief overview of the game rules.
Full -- This page contains all the rules and some hints. Don't let this be overwhelming. The game isn't as hard as it may look after looking at this page.

Script Tests -- This page contains analysis of some saved script tests. These tests are mostly for the host's benefit, but they are here in case anyone else has an interest.
Sound Files -- This page has sound files with brief instructions on how to add them to IRC clients.
Statistics -- This page shows the game's stats.
Works Cited -- This page shows sources used for questions and explains the format used in questions.

Finally, if you want information about game sessions, updates to this website, and even updates to the game itself, sign up for the newsletter and/or notification mailing list by clicking here. More information is at the bottom of each page on this site.

Can't sign up to the mailing list? Email me with a subject of Subscribe. I will manually add the email address used in the email request.

Background picture from BoxedArt.
Line and banner graphics obtained from Celine's Original GIF's.
I removed the links, because the sites do not exist anymore.

Game format and questions written by me are copyright 2017-2024 by Jeremy Adderley. Feel free to use the game's format and questions as long as no money exchanges hands. Please give credit. Questions written by others properly credited in the answers. Please send an e-mail to request permission and/or make payment(s) for their use when it involves money.

I do not talk about the questions with anyone that I feel may end up playing the game, especially my wife, whose name won't appear here for privacy reasons.

There are two mailing lists: newsletter and notify. They're separate just in case a person only wants one. The newsletter contains a summary of the game, the scores of everyone who played, corrections to scores, updates to the game, and a high score list. The notify list announces the time for the next game. Due to email sending quotas, the host will send the three random questions two days before the game session. Answering these three questions before the game officially starts will earn points.

There is a page on Facebook about the game, and I post when the next game will be and updates to the site/game.

There is no sharing of any information gathered with anyone, especially advertising networks. This site has no advertisements.

This site gathers the following information:

IP addresses of visitors, the web pages they visited, the websites they came from, the browsers they used, and their country of origin
Email addresses
Email statistics: bounces, forwards, views, and clicks

The host uses visitor information for statistical purposes only, email addresses only for sending emails to subscribers of the mailing list, and email statistics to track who views those emails.

If anyone objects to the gathering of this information, please stop visiting this website and possibly the entire Internet.

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